Performance Evaluation of an Object Management Policy Approach for P2P Networks

Algorithm 4

Discarding layers, the global approach.

Require : free_cache_size ∨ video_size

 While  free_cache_size < video_size do

   (video,  node)⇐ random_video_object();

  nlayers⇐ discard_highest_layer(video,  node);

  if  nlayers = 0 then

   nlayers⇐ discard_highest_layer(video,  node);

   remove_reference_DHT(video,  node);

  end  if

  end while